[routing-wg]Four byte ASN notation

Hi all,

> Not sure if you aware but there is an IETF Internet Draft winging its way
> through the system on this topic, namely
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-michaelson-4byte-as-representation-05.
> txt

The -05 version is a major rewrite w.r.t. the -01 version discussed about a
year ago.

> It did get discussed on the IETF idr list in October 2006, and met significant
> resistance.  There were also comments then about NANOG taking a position on
> this.  I haven't seen any discussion since.
> 
> Current status is Application Director Watching

That is about right: the AD is watching developments but there aren't any.

This is one of those cases where there are 3 solutions which all have their
pro's and con's,  and where neither one is better than any of the others.
The only way out is that somebody makes a decision to pick one and accept
that people in favor of the other solutions will be unhappy for a while,
before they realize that they'll have to live with it.

Right now, the time doesn't seem right yet to make this decision, so I
guess that we'll have to live with this situation for a while.

Henk

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